Too good to go down

 “Too good to go down” is usually used at the beginning of the football season to talk about a big team that has started poorly. Perhaps after five matches a big team has not yet won a game and is therefore in the relegation zone. If you looked at the table and it was the same at the end of the season the team would be relegated. This is when many pundits and football fans will say: “This team is too good to go down”. They mean, the team will start winning soon and will not be relegated; the idea of a big team going down a division is ridiculous.

However, there is a variation of this cliche, “No team is too big to go down”. This is used at the end of a season when a big team is in danger of being relegated.